Edwardsville, Delaware

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Felton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19943. It stands on Greenlees Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Burrsville quadrangle. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Edwardsville within Kent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1918 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Harrington quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Burrsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Salisbury quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Seaford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Burrsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Edwardsville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
14 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
7 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	STALLINGS
31 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
21 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
18 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
28 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
26 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edwardsville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clough and Caulk Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	L.D. Caulk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Schultie Crossroads	1.1 miles	19
Lords Corner	1.3 miles	28
Greens Corner	1.8 miles	19
Hughes Crossroads	2.0 miles	19
Sandtown	2.6 miles	28
Hollandsville	2.6 miles	19
Whiteleysburg	2.8 miles	19
Hopkins Corners	3.5 miles	19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q123163935

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 216086. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.